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Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.

Sonia Sotomayor

The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.
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Community Diversity Feeling
You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will – undoubtedly – fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I’m just not going to let this get me down.
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Doubt Failure Hurt Live Myself
As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.
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Equality Existence Inequality Ourselves Protection Race Society Task
To me, lawyering is the height of service – and being involved in this profession is a gift.
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Gift Law Myself Professional Service
Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.
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Failure Fear Greatness Reward Success Teacher
I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.
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Accomplishment Action Institution Myself Quality Thinking
I’ve spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.
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Hard Learning Life Myself
When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates’ parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
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Attachment Community Different Growth Home Language Parents See Shame Talk Yourself
You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.
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Choice Hard Work Life Understand Yourself
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.
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Hope Life Man Myself Reach Rich Woman
Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.
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Alone Future Oneself Path Remember Success Walk
I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.
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Enjoyment Fade Listening Logic Myself Observation Problem
Until we reach equality in education, we can’t reach equality in the larger society.
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Education Equality Reach Society
I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth.
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Expectation Myself Self Love Worth
Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.
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Build Experience Life Philosophy Wisdom
You can’t dream unless you know what the possibilities are.
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Dreams Possible Yourself

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